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Old 09-24-2007, 05:51 PM
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i had an Invidia for like 6 months, and while i had it, i took it off 3 times (6 exhaust jobs total). so while i had it on, the hangers were prety much always greased. but it never really moved around while i was driving.

now that i've had my HKS on for about 5 months, my friend who always drives behind me says that it shakes whenever i go over the smallest bumps. is there any way i can fix this, or will it always be like that just because the HKS is so heavy?
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I have followed someone with an HKS and their's also moved around quite a bit on hard acceleration and bumps.

Dunno if this helps, but I doubt you are the only one with the problem....
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i hate things that make my car look cheap. like a shaking around exhaust!
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exhaust on a ferrari f430 shakes as well...i hardly would call that car cheap
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It's always a toss up between being loose enough to handle the movement of the engine on the mounts and being too tight and having other problems.

FWIW- if all you have is looseness just relax and be happy. I put big oval tips on my car, and the OEM rubber mounts are too soft. During high g-loads at the track I have melted the oval cutouts in the lower bumper where the tips go through...
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true. but stil....


Anthony does yours move around too?
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I just gone done re-doing my HKS.

Re-weld, powder-coat and a polish.



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sitting from the drivers seat i would not know lol...no one has ever mentioned it to me and b/c you brought it up i went outside just now and tried to shake the exhaust mufflers with my hands and it would barely move
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^^yeah i could barely get it to move as well. but i guess when you go over bumps, there's a lot more force acting on it because my friend said it shakes like crazy
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Originally Posted by freq,Sep 25 2007, 10:34 AM
I just gone done re-doing my HKS.

Re-weld, powder-coat and a polish.



did you have one of the older ones that has the rust problem? did this help the shaking at all? i can't imagine it would

and did you weld it all as one piece, or you jsut re-welded the existing welds?


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